Il microcosmo della pittura, overo, Trattato diviso in due libri : nel primo spettante alla theorica si discorre delle grandezze d'essa pittura ... : nel secondo, che in ordine al primo dimostra la pratica, s'additano l'opere diverse più famose ...

by: Scannelli, Francesco, 1616-1663; Gabburri, Francesco Maria Niccolò, 1676-1742, former owner; Albani, Francesco, 1578-1660, former owner

Publication date: 1657

Topics: Painting, Painting

Publisher: In Cesena : Per il Neri

Collection: yrlsc; davinci; cdl; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Internet Archive

Contributor: University of California Libraries

Language: Italian

This is the copy described in Steinitz (Belt 3)

Frontispiece engraved; with woodcuts: device on t.p., some initials, head- and tail-pieces

Signatures: [a] b c d A-3B 3C

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Steinitz, K.T. Da Vinci's Trattato, 1651-1956

Spec. Coll. copy: Vellum, with bent fore-edges. Margins and blank pages are covered in handwritten notes, made by a former owner, Francesco Maria Gabburri. Steinitz identifies the previous as the Bolognese painter Francesco Albani. (See Steinitz for further details.)

Notes

Loose manuscript pages included at front of the book; crop boxes made larger than normal in order to capture margin notes; all images are best possible capture.